WATTS--Philip. The French department of Columbia University is deeply saddened by the loss of Professor Philip Watts, 52, who died at his home in Morningside Heights, New York, on Saturday, July 20, 2013. Phil Watts was a beloved member of the...

The Royal Dutch/Shell Group will give Walter van de Vijver, former head of exploration and production, a one-time payment of 3.8 million euros ($4.6 million) in connection with his departure in March. Mr. van de Vijver and the former chairman, Sir...

The Royal Dutch/Shell Group's former chairman, Sir Philip B. Watts, received a severance package worth £1.06 million ($1.93 million), the amount he would have earned had he stayed on until retirement, the company said on Friday. Sir Philip was...

Sir Philip B. Watts, the ousted chairman of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group, was awarded a pay and option package worth more than £5.84 million ($10.7 million) in 2003, according to annual reports filed on Friday in London and Amsterdam. The reports...

By STEPHEN LABATON and HEATHER TIMMONS; Stephen Labaton reported from Washington for this article and Heather Timmons from London

A tense and at times hostile relationship between the two most powerful executives of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group caused the company to wait almost two years before addressing problems with overstated oil and gas reserves, according to a summary of...

By JEFF GERTH and HEATHER TIMMONS; Jeff Gerth reported from Washington for this article, and Heather Timmons from London

A senior executive at the Royal Dutch/Shell Group told a subordinate in an e-mail message in December that the employee's preliminary analysis of the company's oil and gas reserves problems was ''dynamite'' and ''needs to be destroyed'' because it...

The early conclusions of an internal investigation into Shell's reserve write-down earlier this year has created warring factions of the board and former executives, and has some investors and legal experts questioning whether the audit committee...

The Justice Department has opened an inquiry into whether executives at the Royal Dutch/Shell Group violated any laws by failing to disclose in a timely fashion a significant shortfall in proven reserves of oil and natural gas, a person involved in...

By STEPHEN LABATON and JEFF GERTH; Heather Timmons, in London, contributed reporting for this article

Arriving on stage in a spaceship and an astronaut suit, Philip Watts, then the senior executive in charge of exploration and production for the Royal Dutch/Shell Group, glowed as he delivered a message of optimism to a conference of 600 company...